Essay On Puritan Colonial Life

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” - Michael Jordan. After reading all the stories such as; the Native American life and the Spanish Explorers, Puritan colonial life and the War of Independence, and the Civil war, the most possibly difficult time to live in was the time during of slavery while the last two falls very closely. During the time of slavery, it was an enormous challenging time to live in because of the internal conflict and the external conflict that majorly impacted on mainly the slavery themselves. In the “Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass”, a very famous person, mentioned that being a slave had brought …show more content…
The only differences between the two is that slavery impacts more on an individual’s experience rather than a whole society that could fix and help each other out in a way where slaves did not have the chance to do. Another difference is that during the time of the Puritan colonial life and the War of Independence, everyone was allowed to be educated and was able to read freely in evidence of how literate the “Speech at the Virginia Convention” was as well as everyone else during that time period while the slaves were not to be more educated than of those who labeled themselves as a higher position as them, or else they would be punished. During the Virginia convention, Patrick Henry said, “Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath place in our power” (234). The quote basically means that they do not consider themselves as weak, and is determined to take anything down in their way. Besides, the colonists had much more of an advantage than the slaves